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Observability Architect

Location: Hartford, CT

Job Type: contract

Company: IDR

Category: All Other

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 Observability Architect 

• Ongoing contract (Client maintains right to hire after 3 months though rarely exercises this right)
• Location: Remote or Hartford, CT
• C2C Pay Rate: $75/HR

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and maintain comprehensive observability solutions across infrastructure, applications, APIs, and databases.

• Leverage Dynatrace (OneAgent, ActiveGate, Davis AI) for automated anomaly detection, root cause analysis, and performance insights.

• Build custom dashboards, alerting policies, and synthetic monitoring in Dynatrace.

• Utilize Splunk ITSI for KPI monitoring, predictive analytics, and advanced SPL queries to support operational visibility.

• Monitor and optimize AWS workloads (EC2, ECS, EKS, RDS) using Dynatrace and native AWS integrations.

• Develop Observability-as-Code (OaC) using Terraform and reusable modules to automate dashboard creation and alert configurations.

• Implement and support observability for API Gateways (IBM APIC, MuleSoft, AWS API Gateway, Kong, NGINX) with key metrics like latency, error rate, and throughput.

• Instrument and monitor databases (Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, AWS RDS) to track query performance and resource utilization.

• Drive distributed tracing implementation across API calls, services, and database layers.

Required Qualifications:

• 10+ years in IT operations, SRE, or observability engineering roles

• Hands-on experience with Dynatrace (OneAgent, ActiveGate, Davis AI)

• Proficiency with Splunk, including ITSI, dashboards, glass tables, and predictive analytics

• Strong AWS monitoring experience (EC2, ECS, EKS, RDS)

• Deep knowledge of Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles

• Experience implementing Observability-as-Code (OaC) for dashboards, alerting, and config management

• Familiarity with monitoring API Gateways and managing distributed tracing across services

• Skilled in building observability pipelines for logs, metrics, and traces

• Strong understanding of monitoring architecture, SLOs, and best practices for operational excellence 

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. IDR is subject to certain governmental recordkeeping and reporting requirements for the administration of civil rights laws and regulations. In order to comply with these laws, we invite employees to voluntarily self-identify their race or ethnicity, gender, and veteran status (if applicable). Submission of this information is voluntary and refusal to provide it will not subject you to any adverse treatment. The information obtained will be kept confidential and may only be used in accordance with the provisions of applicable laws, executive orders, and regulations, including those that require the information to be summarized and reported to the federal government for civil rights enforcement. You may access this form here.

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